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U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDER OBAMA CALLS TO ACKNOWLEDGE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
ARKA
May 4, 2008
YEREVAN, May 4. /ARKA/. U.S. Presidential contender senator Barack
Obama made a statement in marking the 93rd anniversary of the genocide
of Armenian in Ottoman Empire.
"It is imperative that we recognize the horrific acts carried out
against the Armenian people as genocide and I will continue to stand
with the Armenian American community in calling for the Government
of Turkey to acknowledge it as such," Obama said as quoted by the
Armenian National Committee of America.
The Armenian genocide is a well-documented fact proved by many historic
evidences, he said.
Obama expressed his deep regret over the U.S. Ambassador to Armenia
John Evans dismissed in September 2006 after having used the word
"genocide". The post of U.S. Ambassador has been vacant since then.
Obama urged Condoleezza Rice to seriously look into the unstable
stand of the U.S. Government on the matter.
Obama pledged to continue efforts for recognition of the Armenian
genocide and conveyed his condolences to the Armenian people.
Armenian genocide was the first genocide committed in XX
century. Turkey rejects the accusation of massacres and the killing
of one and a half million Armenians during World War I.
The fact of the Armenian genocide is recognized by many countries,
particularly by Uruguay, Russia, France, Lithuania, most of the
U.S. states, as well as by the parliaments of Greece, Cyprus,
Argentina, Belgium, Wales, National Council of Switzerland, Common
House of Canada, the Seym of Poland and lower house of Italian
parliament.
ARKA
May 4, 2008
YEREVAN, May 4. /ARKA/. U.S. Presidential contender senator Barack
Obama made a statement in marking the 93rd anniversary of the genocide
of Armenian in Ottoman Empire.
"It is imperative that we recognize the horrific acts carried out
against the Armenian people as genocide and I will continue to stand
with the Armenian American community in calling for the Government
of Turkey to acknowledge it as such," Obama said as quoted by the
Armenian National Committee of America.
The Armenian genocide is a well-documented fact proved by many historic
evidences, he said.
Obama expressed his deep regret over the U.S. Ambassador to Armenia
John Evans dismissed in September 2006 after having used the word
"genocide". The post of U.S. Ambassador has been vacant since then.
Obama urged Condoleezza Rice to seriously look into the unstable
stand of the U.S. Government on the matter.
Obama pledged to continue efforts for recognition of the Armenian
genocide and conveyed his condolences to the Armenian people.
Armenian genocide was the first genocide committed in XX
century. Turkey rejects the accusation of massacres and the killing
of one and a half million Armenians during World War I.
The fact of the Armenian genocide is recognized by many countries,
particularly by Uruguay, Russia, France, Lithuania, most of the
U.S. states, as well as by the parliaments of Greece, Cyprus,
Argentina, Belgium, Wales, National Council of Switzerland, Common
House of Canada, the Seym of Poland and lower house of Italian
parliament.